Mongolitubulus Missarzhevsky, 1977

Kouchinsky, Artem, Bengtson, Stefan, Clausen, Sébastien & Vendrasco, Michael J., 2015, An early Cambrian fauna of skeletal fossils from the Emyaksin Formation, northern Siberia, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (2), pp. 421-512 : 485

Genus Mongolitubulus Missarzhevsky, 1977

Type species: Mongolitubulus squamifer Missarzhevsky, 1977 ; Botoman Stage , lower Cambrian; Salany-Gol River, Mongolia .

Remarks.—It has been suggested that Mongolitubulus -like hollow ornamented spines may represent detached fragments of different panarthropod origin, such as bradoriids or phosphatocopids ( Melnikova 2000; Skovsted and Peel 2001; Topper et al. 2007), lobopodians ( Dzik 2003; Caron et al. 2013), or trilobites ( Li et al. 2012). Employment of the name Mongolitubulus Missarzhevsky, 1977 for such fossils should therefore be verified by investigation of the type or topotype material of Mongolitubulus squamifer Missarzhevsky, 1977 from western Mongolia.